People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

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.

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.