God loved me before I actually was.

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.

Without stories, we are incomplete.

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

I really like driving cars. I love car games.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.