The regional organization must be about one thing only, and that's the deliverance - the assured deliverance - of preparedness for a catastrophic incident.

[D]o every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

I'd really like to go to the State. I've never been. The regional final is the farthest I've got.

A sage traveling all day
is never far from the supplies in his cart,
and however spectacular the views
he remains calm and composed.