When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.