“Change is necessary and, deny it as we may, in the end change is always inevitable.”

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”

“If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.”

“f we view climate changes as our enemy we will always be defeated, for climate will always change. Natural climate change is frequent, often extreme, and sometimes rapid. Industrial CO2 is a real problem just as you have heard, but it’s only a fragment of the whole story of climate. In other words, I’m not a global warming denier – I want to add to the discussion of climate change from the point of view of geology and natural change. What may matter most is not our carbon policies, but whether we invest in adaptive strategies that can serve us well when change inevitably arrives on our doorstep.”

“Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.”

“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”