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

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.

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.

If this is freedom, do I want it?

Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

I don't like being negative to people who are so nice to me.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )