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)

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.

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.

Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

We're changing the world with technology.

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.