Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

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.

A strong ant is better than a weak lion.

A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.

If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.