We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

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.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

Jokes about butts WORKED.

I want to be a simple bride when I get married. I want a beach wedding where I am running around on the sand in a white dress.

In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.