Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world's salvation.

Kindness is an attribute of strength, it has boldness in it and the power of love.

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.