We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

Cut the cords of attachment. Expand the circle of love.

Strong brands are built on unshakable values and authenticity.

Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.