The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.

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

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.