God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

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.

What was it about this infuriating woman that reduced him to a twelve-year-old at the pool?

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

What kind of FBI agent are you?

That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.