“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.”

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one’s figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that’s good.

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.

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.

I’m present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step.

The ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can’t imagine a day without her!

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.