We can only be human together.

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.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.