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. 
There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain! 
Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. 
Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan. 
From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. 
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. 
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings. 
Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin. 
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential. 
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change. 
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. 
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. 
I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild. 
The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests 
Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it. 
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. 
It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me. 
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them. 
Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. 
Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world. 
Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true. 
I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better! 
If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them. 
I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions. 
And always I have this feelingwhich may not be true at all
that I am being used as a messenger.
Children can change the world. 
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist. 
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. 
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children. 
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists. 
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. 
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals. 
It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope. 
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice. 
I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup. 
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved. 
Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference. 
As thy days, so shall thy strength be. 
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan. 
People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well. 
Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right. 
The awful thing is we don't respect each other. 
Having respect for animals makes us better humans.. 
Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful. 
I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild. 
If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. 
If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty. 
The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts. 