Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

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.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life.

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.

I am Loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing!

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it