Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

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

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.

The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.