I like my decisions to be taken carefully, so they don't harm anyone close to me, so that the people close to me are happy.

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

I'd like to suggest that the Golden Rule is perhaps the most potent political weapon we Christians have today. And I don't say this because I'm Anabaptist but because empathy is at the bottom of the Golden Rule. If we as Christians with a faithful witness would set the example, not by way of reaction but by way of reasoned empathy, we might set the tone for more shalom in our world.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.