Tutu: "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

Tutu: "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."

Tutu: "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."

Tutu: "Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

Tutu: "You must show the world that you abhor fighting."

Tutu: "Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden."

Tutu: "Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies."

Tutu: "I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people."

Tutu: "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."

Tutu: "We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity."

Tutu: "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."

Tutu: "Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy."

Tutu: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

Tutu: "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Tutu: "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, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime."

Tutu: "We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."

Tutu: "In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."

Tutu: "As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities."

Tutu: "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."

Tutu: "A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons."

Tutu: "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 confidence from your own constituency."

Tutu: "In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."

Tutu: "I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday."

Tutu: "Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice."