Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

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 focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

Cats are designated friends.

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.