If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

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.

You become greater than what you conquer within.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.