I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.