When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.