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.

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.