I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

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!

But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.

To be held in his armsI long for that dayThe da that I get to seemore wonderful things

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.

When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new.

I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.