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.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
And every human being is precious.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness..
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
