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

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.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be consistent with who Jesus Christ was. So that is your ultimate litmus test, not that you've got specific words to say, whatever they may be saying. It is what is being said. They're consistent with the revelation of God that we encounter in Jesus.

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.