Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.