As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

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 means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.