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

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.

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

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

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

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

Come up and see me sometime.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.