People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.