“Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.”

“Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.”

“The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.”

“Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.”

“Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”

“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”

“Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.”

“Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”

“When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.”

“The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”

“I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.”

“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.”