When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.