The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

I loved literally everything about this man

People need to learn to live with more risk.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.