The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.