I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

To become successful you have to dream big. Small dreams don’t have the magic to stir up passion and greatness within you.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.

Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers

We don’t “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.