Today, it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation precisely because it has never been more important to do so.

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.

Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.

Dance while you can move your being.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Do I read her books? Of course.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move