As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

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.

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Every company is now a technology company.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

Being a geek is extremely liberating

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.