"I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday."

"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated."

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

"You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion."

"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom."

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."