The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

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.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.