The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

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.

Life is a daring faith.

Hope is faith.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts!

I think of my novels as entertainments.