"A real strategy is not bottom up because it deals with issues that require unexpected or unusual types action, especially of coordination among units."

“Love the earth as you would love yourself.”

“I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.”

“The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.”

Source : "Risky business: Keeping security a secret". www.zdnet.com. January 16, 2003.

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

“Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.”

“Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?”

“The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.”

Source : John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1846). “A Complete Guide to the Lakes: Comprising Minute Directions for the Tourist with Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Country, &c., ...”, p.168

“There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.”