In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.

Life is like a song

Feeling grateful to breathe a new day. Gratitude is a way to submit to the flow of life.

In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.