I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

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.

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.