“One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.”

“the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important”

“You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.”

“Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.”

“Funny thing about guilt: There's nothing so bad that you can't add a little guilt to it and make it worse; and there's nothing so good you can't add guilt to it and make it better. Guilt distracts us from a greater truth: we have an inherent ability to heal. We seem intent on living through even the worst heartbreak... How? ... Practice.”

“It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life.”