Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'