When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

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.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

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

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)

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.