We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

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.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Let no day go by without counting your blessing.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

I do believe all actors are smart.

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.