We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.