Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.