The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

We're running out of time.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

I'll show you how, " Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.