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.

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.