Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

The other decisive change, which triggered a second population explosion, began around 400 B.C. with the arrival of a new lifestyle (and people?) from South Korea.

This very unequal distribution of wild ancestral species among the continents became an important reason why Eurasians, rather than peoples of other continents, were the ones to end up with guns, germs, and steel.

I see you as a human being, not just a representative of your ‘side.

The fifth hammer is you, when you choose the practice and trust yourself enough to create.

Leo Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with the statement “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Meetings are much the same.

The Aboriginal Australian substitute for food production has been termed “firestick farming.” The Aborigines modified and managed the surrounding landscape in ways that increased its production of edible plants and animals, without resorting to cultivation.

Great managers are not philosophers, entertainers, doers, or artists. They are engineers. They see their organizations as machines and work assiduously to maintain and improve them.

Pray for only what you believe God can do, for a certain person in a definite situation during a given time period.

Our mind is strongly biased toward causal explanations and does not deal well with 'mere statistics'.