As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

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.

Where do bad folks go when they die? No heaven awaits them, say to it goodbye

a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.

Sometimes I wish it has been you.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.