It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

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.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

If you set something free and it comes back to you, that's the beginning of it being yours.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

We are going to stand together, united.