It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

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.

Sow the seeds of hard work and you will reap the fruits of success. Find something to do, do it with all your concentration. You will excel.

I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart

And suddenly, there were the shapes of many people lurking out of the woods, light glowing from their hands.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

My first car was a BMW. A white BMW.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

The Lord won't confirm a lie.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

I don't want to be called a good loser. A good loser is still a loser.