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

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.

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.

If he didn’t want to talk about it, I wouldn’t mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

All complaining comes from pride.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.