Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.

Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!

Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.