When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.