We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

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!

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.