because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

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.

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.