Anything war can do, peace can do better.

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.

As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life.

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

If you inspire one person each day, you’re day hasn't been a waste. It’s been a blessing.