If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

The heart never knows the colour of the skin

Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

I've never claimed to be civil, " he said with a soft growl, flashing his canines.

I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.