You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.