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After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.