Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.