It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

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.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures

The greatest treasures are invisible by the eye but found by the HEART. For where your treasure is, there your heart would also BE

Rule 2: Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear

Only Jesus can complete.

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.