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

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.