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

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

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

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.

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

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.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Certainly I've appreciated Angela Merkel as a partner.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.

The market is the best garden.

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.