When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

Today, it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation precisely because it has never been more important to do so.

What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.

Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.

Is it the raindrops pervading my being?or is it your lips touching my skin?

A closed heart is the most self limiting factor in life. Start to listen to your heartfelt desires.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.