When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

I have a lot of time for young people.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.