Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

No matter how talented you are not everyone is going to like you but that's life, stay strong

We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.

I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship.