How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

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