There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

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.

God loves you and created you in His own image.

Give people strength and encouragement, build them up with good words!

How can we fully appreciate the redemption Jesus performed unless we fully understand from what we were redeemed?

I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.