"Of course you did.' I took a step closer. 'You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them."

"You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them."

"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"