Culture is coded wisdom

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

You do what you want to for Passion, you do what you have to for Obligation.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you made more.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.