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.

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

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

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.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

All roads lead to Johannesburg.