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

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.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve in Africa, but first and foremost, we need a government that feels responsible to protect their own people from the exploitations, from the misuse, from the mistreatment that they can easily get.

The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they need, that technology needs to be made available and affordable.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.