We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

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 most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

I believe in God the way my dog does

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.