We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.