There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

I hear my silence talked of in every lane

Saving time is one of the great superpowers you can unlock in the modern era.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.