You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

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!

Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.

Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

Great men always pay deference to greater.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.