The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen.

Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.