A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life