An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn’t you rather skip reality?

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Percy!’ Annabeth scolded. ‘You just opened another Monster Doughnut shop somewhere!

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

Dancing well is the best revenge

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.