I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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.

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.