Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.

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!

Your eyes tell me everything about you.Your words only confirm it.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.