People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

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

A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

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