Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

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.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.