People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

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

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

The way God operates is on the basis of love.

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.