“People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.”

Without patience I could never have succeeded.

Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Peace starts within.

Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?

Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.

I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.

And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.

You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.

I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

To this day, one of my proudest achievements is captaining my country.