Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.