Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Lyme disease is preventable, but only if Canadians have the information they need to prevent it.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.