If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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.

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

Think, Act, Become

Got a bout of doubt? Breathe.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.