Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

I tried to have a cookie, and this girl said, "I'm mailing those cookies to my friend." So I couldn't have one. You shouldn't make cookies untouchable.