“I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.”

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

I don’t really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

I’d rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman’s heart.

I hope one day your paper cranes grow up in dreams and fly away.

A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.

My fans can see me grow up.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.