It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

I am gonna shock the crowd, you are just gonna wow them.

You yourself must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.