That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

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.

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and get a lot done.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.

Inspiration is found everywhere if you look hard enough.