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

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.

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

It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day.

Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood.

Some men and women aren't looking for money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. They simply want to watch the world burn.

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

We have first lady Michelle Obama on the show tonight. As you'd expect, security's been pretty tight. On my way in I got five pat-downs, and that was just from Joe Biden.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.