"Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy."

“Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

“I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.”

“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.”

Source : "Good Life Practice: The Power of Two Minutes to Shape Your Life" by David Mochel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2017.

“Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.”

“I'm known as The Big Baryshnikov.”

“A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.”

Source : Emile Durkheim, Steven Lukes (2014). “The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

“The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.”

“Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge