Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.