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

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.