“I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.”

We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs

He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

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

There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.

Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.

Nature can win if we give her a chance.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

Only you can control your future.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I just love a challenge, whether it’s a relationship, my career, clothing.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it. I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn’t make my career on beauty.

The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.