The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

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.

Never let fear control you, let faith take control.

Don’t blame other people for your problems. Only you can do anything about your problems. Inspect, reflect, realize, and then find the cure. No one can do it for you.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

We're all a little tired.

I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.

God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.