Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.