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

"In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights."

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

"God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love."

"The paradox of freedom is that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"A courageous heart knows that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."