Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

And every human being is precious.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

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

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

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

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