People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

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.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

Michael had always thought that seeing ghosts was stressful. Those wandering spirits were nothing compared to whatever women had going through their heads at all odd hours of the day.

Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

I'm much more for style and not trend-driven.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.