Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

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

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.