Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

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.

To dream is to possess.

...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother.

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.