Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.

They think, after the biggest of the white folks no longer on the earth, the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God, or one mother's children, no matter what they look like or how they act.

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.

Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did, in fact, they admired it.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

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.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.