Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

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

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

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.