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.

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

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.'

[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

Do not get discourage in pursuit of your dreams.

You are accountable for your own victory or misery

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

...(O)ne thing that the world can count on is that we will not allow Israel to be crushed.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

I would've done it for you in a heartbeat.