If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.