You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream ofyesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Everything means something.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.