The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

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.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.'No not at all, ' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.