The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

pse.The Scars come before the Stars.

For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?

Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

What is beauty? It's what you love.