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

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.

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.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give

Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.

In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels.

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.