As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

We're running out of time.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

Always take failure as an opinion never as an option.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

You're gonna know my name by the end of the night.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

The night comes stealing o'er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.