There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

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!

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

I have a strong constitution.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

It does not take many words to tell the truth

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.