"I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted."

“Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.”

Source : "Complexity and the Arrow of Time". Book by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, p. 243, 2013.

“It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.”

“You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.”

“A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.”

Source : Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).

“Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.”

“I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.”

“Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.”

Source : "The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.co.uk. March 24, 2010.

“Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.127, North Atlantic Books