To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

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.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.