Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

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.

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

The beauty is that you are always free to choose a better future as well as better past. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.