Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

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!

Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

I've always had an underdog perspective.

[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.