Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

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.

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

If we all got angry together something might be done.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.