For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.

Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new .

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

There are no throwaway people.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?