It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

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!

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

i like your embraces because the vertigo smells like the sun.

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

I don't think I'd ever reject anyone.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.