Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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.
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.