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

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.

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.

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.

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

I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.