I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.