I have a lot of time for young people.

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

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