There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

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.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.