You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.