Desmond Tutu

The Israeli government is behaving like the apartheid government.

I am a bit of an old-fashioned person. I am a great believer in the power of love. I am a great believer in the power of laughter. And I am a great believer in the power of prayer.

God is not a Christian. God is not a Jew. God is not a Muslim. God is not a Hindu. God is not a Buddhist. All of these are human creations. God is. And in God, we are all one.

I wish I could remember where I heard this, but someone once said that 'despair is a form of spiritual pride.' I think it's true. When we despair, we are saying, 'I am smarter than God. I know what's going to happen, and it's going to be bad.'

When you have a toothache, you go to the dentist. When you have a spiritual ache, you go to God. Or, if you're like me, you go to your wife and she tells you to go to God.

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you can imagine.

Ubuntu is the essence of being human. It speaks of the fact that my humanity is caught up and inextricably bound up in yours.

To forgive is not to forget. To forgive is to remember and yet be reconciled.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

God's dream is that we would all realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I am not interested in a pie in the sky when I die. I want a pie now, here on earth, with justice and peace for all.

We are created to be free. We are created to love. We are created to have a relationship with God.

The day I stop dreaming is the day I stop living.

We are all God's children. We are all brothers and sisters.

When you laugh, you are a bit closer to God.

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; it is the presence of justice.

We must be ready to learn from one another, to respect one another, to forgive one another.

I am an optimist. I have to be. What other choice is there?

We are all members of one family, the human family.