Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

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 perplexity, the potential— God’s own crucible was not for angels.

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence

The theories we find untrue, are those we cannot accept.

Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.