You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

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.

When we disempower women we actually corrupt the world.

Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

I've never produced a series, so for me [X-men] was a wonderful challenge.

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

If you do not believe yourself no one else will.