“Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.”

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us”

“Sometimes the Worst things that happen in our lives,
put us directly on the Path to the
Best things that will ever happen to us.”

“Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.”

“Of all things the worst to teach the young is dalliance, for it is this that is the parent of those pleasures from which wickedness springs.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.”

“The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.”

“What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.”