"God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion."

"In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights."

"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."

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."

"In the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."

"A resilient spirit knows that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."