Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

The truth may make you bitter

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

If you have faith in God, if you believe that God can use you, if you are willing to take a step of faith here and there, then God can do incredible things through you.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music.

I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.

I like big butts and I cannot lie

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.