A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

The impossible is what we achieve through art.

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

Ignorance is not linear, it's exponential.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.