It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.