It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

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.

She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.