The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.