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.