There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

God loved me before I actually was.

I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.