We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

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 became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

You're only young once. That is all society can stand.

Instead of constantly blaming your society for all the negativity around you, try to become the positive change that would eradicate them.

when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.

Art without heart is craft.

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.