Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

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.

When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

Believe in yourself, then others will believe in yourself.

See your target. Keep it in your sight. Hit it... until you hit it.

I wanna rock right now.