If I diminish you, I diminish myself

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.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any time

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.