When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

Unafraid, Unashamed, Lord we know who we are, We are the people and we won't be silent.Unified hear us cry at the top of our lungs, You are our God and we will not be shaken!

The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.

Work and Pray always been a good combination.

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.

I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".