“God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.”

“The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.”

“God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.”

“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.”