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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.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

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.

I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?

You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.