In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

The lesser is the contact with the outside, the greater is the contact with inside.

How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem.

Crushes are called crushes because they crush The soul.

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.