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.

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 .

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.