Desmond Tutu

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.