The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.