I'm sad to report that in the past few years ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

So in my uncertainty I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain the politics of constant conflict may be good but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery lost at the edge in uncertainty but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty economic downturn government cuts rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

For all of its uncertainty we cannot flee the future.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear uncertainty and division in society.

In an ecology of love people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants about people who are different has a history as old as our Nation.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Through first-class education a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

We are biological creatures. We are born we live we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear we find courage in the face of helplessness insignificance and uncertainty.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Really each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone as is complexity contradiction and an uncertain future.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty progress change - into crimes.