When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

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.

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?

And so we are seeds of love, scattered across the world, from the hands of the wind.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

What I know is that if you put the right policies in place that will lead to economic growth, society will be better.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.