I don't believe [Africa] is ready to shift - and she needs to shift. So she needs to get the technology and she can only get that technology from the developed world.

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!

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.