Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God to know that stealing is bad. All of God's children and their different faiths help to realize the immensity of God. No faith contains the whole truth about God. And certainly Christians don't have a corner on God. All of us belong to God.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

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

It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

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