Regrets are illuminations come too late.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.