People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

I would like to call on young people to commit themselves to activities that contribute toward achieving their long-term dreams. They have the energy and creativity to shape a sustainable future. To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at the coast. So that means as we develop these seaside land masses, we need to have enough knowledge to not regret in the future. We know that the US government is literally buying these lands back to allow them to be rehabilitated.

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.