Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

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.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Wake up every morning with dreams of a wonderful day.

Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.

Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

You cant hire body guards against punches of life but constant prayers can lessen the impact & pain of each punch

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.