Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.

We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.