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

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

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

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.

Poirot, " I said. "I have been thinking.""An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

The idea in collaborative bargaining is to negotiate without making concessions to each other, by looking for joint-gain options instead.

YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.