You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

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.

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

Live for possibilities. Live with passion and purpose.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.