“We’d won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren’t going to win.”

I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.

Oil companies are radical because they’re willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

We also have to engage – and I think this is important – in national politics because there is no way to address questions of this scale in the short time that we have to address them without engaging in real political change.

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.

If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.

All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?

I’m young. I’m 22. I’m still growing. I just feel like it’s time for me to go up.

I’m very flexible. I’ve got flexibility in any weight class.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

We’ll fight Pacquiao, I’ll stop this fight [Carlos Molina] to fight Pacquiao. What would I got to do?

Both of them can get it. They can line up.