Desmond Tutu on family

We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he’d rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.

Ring Lardner1885–1933

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937