I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.