There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

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.

Be kind to all and rude to no one.

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

Power has a social function.

Be happy, be happy.

Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

My country has no history, only a past.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.