The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

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

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

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

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.

It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar

[Jack Johnson] really helped me make the record, put it out, and then let me tour with him for two years. He really helped me out.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

The faster some talents work, the more risk plays into the equation and then the opportunities for injury increases.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices.