Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

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.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.

I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.