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

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

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.

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.

Your purpose lies where your passion, wisdom and gifts meet and complement each other.

The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.

Be the compassion you seek.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

Greece is the most magical place on Earth.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face