Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.