I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

If everyone, every morning, thought about peace just for a few minutes instead of thinking about what to eat for breakfast we would have peace in the world.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.

You cannot hide your true self forever.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.