You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

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.

Surrender is Serenity & a Bridge to Bliss.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Andy [Murray] is one of the premier workaholics. He's given himself a lot of opportunities through that.

'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.