The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.