People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

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.

And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under siege, and nothing is recognizable is left. The world is unmade.

It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the person

The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.

Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

Those were my children being slaughtered.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.

The only failure is not trying.

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.