I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.

Love gives us power, makes us risk everything we have, everything we are. Love is not for the weak. It's for the strong.

This was love. Love showed up. Love stayed. Love sacrificed.

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.

Yeah, seeing her unsettled him, but it was her words that nearly took him apart. Because sometime after his heart started beating again, after he'd grabbed ahold of his emotions, she'd become the woman that, once upon a time, he'd fallen in love with.

That's what love does right? Shows up and sticks around, even for the hard stuff. Keeps its promises~ Sam to Pete (pg 322)

You show up. You wait. You give. You sacrifice. You love anyway.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

I had to look at white people as fellow South Africans and fellow partners in building a new South Africa.