You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.