Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

I run with heart and determination, and that's what you can't measure-heart.

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.