Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

I am not stroppy at all.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

When I get off a flight, I'm not trying to sit there and let them take pictures of me. I'm tired. I'm scratching my eyes. I just don't like taking pictures in general.

Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.

My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.