“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”

“It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.”

“Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.”

“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

“One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.”