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In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.