"Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it."

"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

"I can be a better me than anyone can."

"Forgiveness is nothing less than the way we heal the world. We heal the world by healing each and every one of our hearts. The process is simple, but it is not easy."

"It is true that when we harm others, we harm ourselves; but it is just as true that when we help others, we also help ourselves."

"Somewhere deep inside us we seem to know that we are destined for something better than strife."

"It is small comfort to a mouse, if an elephant is standing on its tail, to say 'I am impartial.' In this instance, you are really supporting the elephant in its cruelty."

"My first point seems overwhelmingly simple: that the accidents of birth and geography determine to a very large extent to what faith we belong."

"Order to truly forgive oneself, one must either explicitly or implicitly acknowledge that one’s behavior was wrong and accept responsibility or blame for such behavior."

"Without forgiveness, there's no future."

"The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world."

"I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness."

"In the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind."

"In our own ways, we are all broken. Out of that brokenness, we hurt others. Forgiveness is the journey we take toward healing the broken parts. It is how we become whole again."

"Do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves."

"There is a certain kind of dignity we admire, and to which we aspire, in the person who refuses to meet anger with anger, violence with violence, or hatred with hatred."

"We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white."

"Healing means that our dignity is restored and we are able to move forward in our lives."

"To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity."

"We are always at our best when compassion enables us to recognize the unique pressures and singular stories of the people on the other side of our conflicts."

"People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition."

"One of the most blasphemous consequences of injustice, especially racist injustice, is that it can make a child of God doubt that he or she is a child of God."

"Renewing a relationship is a creative act. We make a new relationship. It is possible to build a new relationship regardless of the realities of the old relationship."

"When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum."