We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

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.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

A peculiarity of the nature of your mind is that, in contrast to your physical constitution (dosha) that is fixed from birth, it can be altered through discrimination and choice.

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.