There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.