I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

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.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

Silence does good to the soul.