I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

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.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again.

I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.