You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

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.

Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.