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We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.