We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

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.

Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield.

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)

I don't really go for the swagger thing too much.