Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so.

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.