Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'