Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

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.

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--

Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.