The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

My father's a character.

If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of whom your actions affect.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Habit is a second nature.

I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.