Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

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.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

I said [Hillary Clinton] doesn't have the stamina. And I don't believe she does have the stamina.

We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.