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

I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.