Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

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.

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

To live long, live slowly.

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.