The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Life is short and the art long.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'

May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.