Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

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.

Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, " as one feminist explained.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are.

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.

In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.