"Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest canopy overhead and the sound of migratory songbirds in the air, it feels like you're standing in the rainforest."

“Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.”

“To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.”

“What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.”

Source : ABC1 "Enough Rope", September 20, 2004.

“My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.”

“The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.”

“If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Ciara on One Woman Army, Being Vulnerable and Who Her New Song 'Sorry' is Really About". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. September 10, 2012.

“I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.”

Source : Marie Beynon Lyons Ray (1948). “How to conquer your handicaps”, Indianapolis