When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim.