Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

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.

Solitude always gives birth to a product.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

When does a building actually become a built?

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.