Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

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.

Wherever you go, love goes also. - Sarah Rajkotwala

No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures.

Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.