If you're under 26 you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more but the number is roughly constant and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.