Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic view of women. He would say things like women must not talk in church, must cover their heads, they mustn't talk and must remember that it was a woman who first tempted and this whole mess started because women messed us up. So you can read it in such a way that it justifies polygamy.

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.