I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

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.

Foolishness is not a lack of resources, it's the lack of wisdom.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I am hungry at the most inappropriate times.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.