The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

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.

Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.

The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together.

You would make a greater impact in the world, if you would engage in attending to the demands of your inner positive voices.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

You never know what people are going to go and see.