We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

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.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

Although there are many plans in a loving heart,but only God’s will is sufficiently established.

I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.

If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.