I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.

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.

Is there anything that can replace life?

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

Swift as shadow, short as any dream