But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
