Frans de Waal was our guest at Maastricht University as a lecturer several times in the past years. He inspired people from our international university community and from outside our university with his lectures on his important research. He was a master in taking people along in his story. As head of the Studium Generale I was happy to also meet him personally and to get to know him (a little bit) as a very kind, interested and noble person. We will remember him for that and his inspiring nature.