There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.