Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.