One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.