The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter.

Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons.

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.