One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.