While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated.

Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.

Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

Attitude distinguishes between a winner and a loser.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.