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

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Forgiving is good for your health.

Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.