To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

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

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

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.