To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

It didn't happen without a selfie. It's good Netiquette to take safe pictures of thy self at events. NetworkEtiquette.net

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.