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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

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

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.