I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf.

Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

Faith makes things work out.

On most guys, Hale's smile would have looked sheepish. On him, it was so roguishly charming that Kat's heart actually skipped a beat.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

I was the one that got him [Barack Obama] to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'