You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?