To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.