The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.