It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.

Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources.

Be careful how you use your words, how you build them and how people will understand them!?

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly

The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.

When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.

I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.