As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

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.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

Joyful life, sharing life with people.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.