We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

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.

Poverty is the origin of invention

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!