What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

And they said if we help with the crisis they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.

I have no consistency except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from and it gets isolated by crisis and those crises are often very intimate also.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

In Hawaii we have something called Ho'oponopono where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least if you want peace or stability it's better to prepare for war or instability.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Green is the prime color of the world and that from which its loveliness arises.

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

I go to the movies a lot and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like to find them offering no more surprises.

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long you miss them.

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long underestimate the risks want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them and they end up spending more money causing much more damage to the economy.