Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

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.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.