Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.