I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

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.

Let us search the old highways.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that's it.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.