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.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

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.

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.

It is proved that those who have plans but do not record them, lose to those who have written plans

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.

Life can be so wonderful when simplicity, passion and love is involved in everything we do !

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride.

[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.