You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

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.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...

Don’t get me wrong. I like dogs. I love them, in fact. It’s their human counterparts I could sometimes do without.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

I've always been into dark colours.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?