It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

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.

Thank God for the journey.

If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.