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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Awareness is above intellect.Intellect is above speech. Speech is above knowledge. For knowledge in itself is just a name.

When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode

I have learned that chances don’t always come to you

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.