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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.

It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.