The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.