Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

I am obstinate and I will not give in.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.