“I believe it is always possible to draw closer to our Lord, whether it be during times of suffering or during times of celebration. It is all life, and all of life comes from God.”

“All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.”

“I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.”

“A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.”

“We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves.”

“There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.”