When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.