I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.