I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there you can deal with that change.
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.
When you jump for joy beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.