We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Failure is a greater teacher than success

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.

Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.

A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.

Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

Honestly every day had huge challenges. I remember one day coming home and running a bath and going, "You don't know how to act, do you?" It was the most humbling experience ever.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.