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

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.

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.

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")

Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.