I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

Who can give a man this, his own name?

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

I am a star because I have always felt so alienated and I project this feeling to others.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.