We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

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.

These days the sun never cared to shine when people like me needed it most.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all