Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.