Desmond Tutu quotes

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.