Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

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.

If you truly believe love conquers all try to give a kiss to a rattlesnake..

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.