It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better

Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.