We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

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.

Today could be the day you live at your creative best.

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.