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.

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

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

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.