It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.