“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”

“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”

“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”

“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”

“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”

“In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.”

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

“The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.”

“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”

“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

“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.”

“The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.”

“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.”

“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.”

“In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.”