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.

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.

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!

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

What I hate is leather leggings and an ankle boot. I hate the line.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.