The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

It isn't about who is 'for' or 'against' you, it's about who you are for.

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.