You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

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.

You can only build on success, but to do this you have to be willing to let go of your last success and use it as a stepping stone for your next achievement.

The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.

I think there's more room for different representations of women within fashion imagery.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

I am really Method-y.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.