God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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.

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

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.