I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.