My vote is my secret.

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.

One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.

Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian’s lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.