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

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.

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.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

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.

I honestly didn’t realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it’s true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.