I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

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.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.