As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

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.

A slap from God is better than a handshake from the devil.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.

Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.