No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

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

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.