One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

You cannot discover God without discovering people

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

in the name of a god who was always a ghost

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.