"There's power, power in love. If you don't believe me, think about a time when you first fell in love. The whole world seemed to center around you and your beloved."

"The power of love is demonstrated by the fact that we're all here. Two young people fell in love and we all showed up," a light-hearted remark that earned him a smile from both Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

"I am talking about some power. Real power. Power to change the world. If you don't believe me, well, there were some old slaves in America's Antebellum South who explained the dynamic power of love, and why it has the power to transform. They explained it this way, they sang a spiritual, even in the midst of their captivity."

"Love God. Love your neighbors. And while you're at it, love yourself."

"Jesus did not get an honorary doctorate for dying. He wasn't getting anything out of it. He sacrificed his life for the good of others, for the well-being of the world, for us. That's what love is."

"And Jesus said you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like it - Love your neighbor as yourself."

"Think and imagine a world when love is the way. ...Because when love is the way, we actually treat each other like we are actually family. When love is the way, we know that God is the source of us all. And we are brothers and sisters, children of God. My brothers and sisters, that's a new Heaven, a new Earth, a new world, a new human family."

There was no Bronze Age without fire, no Iron Age without fire, no Industrial Age without fire. The advances of science and technology are greatly dependent on the human ability and capacity to take fire to use it for human good."

"Anybody get here in a car today, an automobile? Nod your heads if you did, I know there were some carriages. For those of us who came in cars, fire made that possible. I know that the Bible says, and I believe that Jesus walked on water. But I have to tell you I didn't walk across the Atlantic Ocean to get here. Controlled fire in that plane got me here. Fire makes it possible for us to text and tweet and e-mail and Instagram and Facebook and otherwise socially be dysfunctional with each other."

"Dr. King was right: we must discover love, the redemptive power of love. And when we do that, we will make of this old world a new world."