Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that...
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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.
For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other hu...
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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...
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconcil...
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encourage...
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confi...