Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

One of the reasons why I say we all need to work together to save the Congo forest, because if we don't save the Congo forest, the Amazon forest and the southeast Asia forest, if those forests release the carbon they are trapping at the moment, much of what you will be doing in the North will be negated by the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.