We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

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.

Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.