To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

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 difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

I think the most critical needs of the African-American communities aren't being addressed primarily because of decisions being made by Republican Congressional leaders.

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

Great for good, or great for evil.