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If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.