I love surprises - champagne and strawberries all that pampering romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

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.

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.

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.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.

Against the State against the Church against the silence of the medical profession against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past the woman of today arises.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap the missile gap.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

In these troubled uncertain times we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.