Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up.

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

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