Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

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 limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.