...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

We're running out of time.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.