The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it.

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding.

I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

There's nothing political about American literature.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.