When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

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.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

True stories are the best stories.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.