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Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Bad things happen sometimes.

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.

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.