We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

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

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

God is on the side of the oppressed.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.