Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.