“The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.”

“You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.”

“What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?”

“However, nothing is all too bad, and there were many good people to meet in prison from all over Africa with interesting stories for us to listen to as we stood through the nights and days, stepping on roaches and scratching lice but at least getting to learning something interesting about other countries and other people.”

“They are among the three hundred million Africans who earn less than a dollar a day, and who are often pushed out of the way or killed for such things as oil, water, metal ore, and diamonds.”

“You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.”

“I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.”