Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.