Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

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.

Nothing in nature is that even

If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.