Desmond Tutu

"We have been given the gift of being able to make a choice that will affect our future."

"Children are our hope for the future."

"Peace cannot be achieved in a vacuum - it must be backed by justice."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"The most important thing for each one of us is that we have to be an agent for our own change."

"A person is a person through other people."

"To forgive is not just Christian, it is the deepest form of self-interest."

"We all need to understand that God is not angry with us."

"What a wonderful place the world would be if we treated each other with the warmth we show to our friends."

"True reconciliation is not just a matter of forgetting the past."

"Death can never be quite as bad as it seems beforehand."

"We are all meant to be saints. That is the fundamental truth."

"The divine intention is that we should be free. Free to grow. Free to love. Free to become our authentic selves."

"Bitterness consumes the bitter person. It's like taking poison and expecting it to kill your enemies."

"Our world is fragile and we need unity, we need cooperation."

"There is nothing that prevents us from loving one another except our own weakness, sin, and selfishness."

"Recognize the fact that the very elaborately difficult material world we are experiencing is God's love made visible."

"We are all God's favorites."

"I'm not interested in liberation unless it's for everybody."

"Compassion is not sentimental pity. It is a tough love that insists on justice."

"Hope is fundamental. Without it we cannot live."

"We must stand together, oppose violence and hatred with our capacity to love."

"Your parents deserve appreciation, for they have been looking after you for so long."

"The goal of our education should be to create individuals who are morally upright."

"We cannot be fully human if we do not have someone to love and to be loved by."

"God asks for our best, which is a pretty well-received request in most quarters."

"We are fashioned by God and fashioned in the image of God."

"The fundamental principle of Ubuntu is that a person is a person through other people."

"Our God is not a tribal God. He is a God of all the nations of the earth."

"We would be very surprised if we went to heaven and found that we could not identify our loved ones there."