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

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.