Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human 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.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.