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

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,

Anger is a fire that burns you from both ends.

Destructive force of hatred is a virus

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

Youth condemns maturity condones.

Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.