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

The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...

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.

All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.