Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

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

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.