“But that's what I'm saying to you… That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.”

“People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”

“Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.”

“You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels. That's interesting you should ask that, because I've never seen angels around bad people.”

“Grandfather, when you saw the tiger were you scared? Bad people scare me, not tigers.
Grandfather, have you ever run into bad people?
There aren’t many tigers but lots of bad people, only you can’t shoot people.”

“I hear people say I swing at bad pitches. What is a bad pitch? If I can hit it, it's not a bad pitch.”

“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.”

“Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”

“Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.”

“I don't think the father figures who let me down are bad people. They were doing the best they could, and sometimes that's just not enough. It's less their fault than it is the circumstances they were in. I can't really blame them for what happened. Now I'm so far away from these issues that it doesn't hurt anymore. In those moments, it was excruciating, but you can't stay in pain too long. You have to let it wash over you and pass, or else it will drown you.”