Peace without justice is an impossibility.

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.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!'

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.