We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.