Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.

We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.