And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

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

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

Of course animals have a personality and emotions.

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.