I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

When our star shines, someone else's fades away; when our dream is fulfilled, someone else's turns into a nightmare!

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.