If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.

Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.