Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First World War, they were promised a homeland, but the new Turkish state refused to give them any land, while the British went and created the new state of Iraq and sent aircraft to bomb the Kurds there into submission.

It's their choice, the choice of the people of Gaza, to create the real peace or at least to create conditions of coexistence.