Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

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.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.