If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

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

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.