We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.