If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

All of us, even the myriads among us who have emotional problems ranging from the light to the serious, have far more hope for the future.

All these
problems were building up down there. The schools in Louisiana opened the week before
Katrina hit and they were already laying off teachers because they were $45 million in
the hole. Half the people in Louisiana are on welfare or Social Security or some other
kind of assistance, so when the hurricane hit at the end of the month they were all out
of money. It's more than just the hurricane.

A lot of the problems we found as a start-up we tried to get fixed as soon as we could.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.