Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

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.

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.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

I always say the things you're not supposed to.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?

It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.

Live each day as your last, and tomorrow is forever