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

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

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.

Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.

The key to happiness is a regular dose of unhappiness.

Kleos is sometimes translated as "acoustic renown" the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.

Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.

My poor mother. Every time I get a job she asks, "Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?" and I say, "You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom."

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.