Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.