There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.