I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

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.

When you lose your job, you gain ownership of your life

They did the Monster Mash, it was a grave yard smash.

I don't do any jokes that old. I might have maybe one or two jokes from high school that I still do.

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.