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

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

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.

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.

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural no interventions. Wish me luck.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner I think if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

I'm in politics. I'm in government so nothing surprises me.

Comedy is surprises so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh that's funny.

If we are strong and have faith in life and its richness of surprises and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.