Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

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.

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

Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul.

Education is a light for self awaken.

We're all looking for a peaceful and safe place, but maybe there is no such place. But we keep going no matter what's waiting for us down the road. We don't stop living.

Your life is not a simulation

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.