Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Failure is a greater teacher than success

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.

Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.

A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.

Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.

The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

(Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?" Malory: "Oh, sweet heavens!")

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

Some kneel and lie to God.

Innovation is really the concept of converging disparate ideas in a new way.

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.