Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances.

The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.

The wall that protects you, also imprisons you.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.