It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

You can walk in the light by faith.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

These people are like sheep, if you were to ask them, who would like hepatitis, they are all going to cheer.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."