Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

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.

Are you in pain, pray!

Seventeen moons, seventeen years, Eyes where Dark or Light appears, Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

I don't want to be that bitter dude. Everyone finds their own special experience with the city no matter what.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

You can choose to follow your heart always.