I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

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.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

I don't hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.

Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Playboy and I have had some talks about doing it and in what manner it would be done. Aaron Spelling did not pay me money not to do it - that's completely false.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.