I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.

It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

Travel requires a great deal of energy - whether you go by car, by bus, by train or plane. We'll likely be using hydrogen as our main energy for transport.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

Nature does not forgive.

If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.