My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Everybody is worth everything.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.