Desmond Tutu

“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.”

“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”

“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

“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.”

“I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.”

“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.”

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

“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.”