And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

it seems politicians projected the powerful brand called Ambedkar, rather than his ideologies. Like the ad says 'name is enough.

A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.

The destination lies in the dream.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.