“We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest reci...” — Greg Boyle Quote

“We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.”

“There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.”

“Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.”

“We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.”

“Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.”

“Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.”

“I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.”

“I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.”

“My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.”

“What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.”

“I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.”