Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

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.

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.

...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.