Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.

For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.