There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

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!

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Capitalism is the key to survival.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.