I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

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

If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.