Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

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.

As a general rule, if anyone ever asks you to put stockings on a ninety-year old deceased Romanian woman with oedema, your answer should be no.

Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.

Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.It was real.So real that I refused to believe it.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.