I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

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.

Insanity is intuition.

I have reached this world’s dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.