People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

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.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

Regretfully, but I have to admit that A. Einstein was right. -''Who?''. Oh, there was such a guy...

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

Do not deny the impact your life can have on others.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.