The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

God sometimes uses ugly vessels to carry beautiful things.

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.

We're certainly looking forward for consolidating and strengthening the U.S.-Egyptian relationship.