It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

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 hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.