It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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.

For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.