To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

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.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

No man is competent to manage another.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.