I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.