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.

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.

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.

You're the sunrise to my eyes every morning.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Metaphysics is a science.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.