The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.