Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

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.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

I like to be a very fair person.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.