I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them

How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing.

As empaths, one of the quickest ways to completely losing our grounding in reality is by deferring our needs and wants in relationships.

That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.

The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.