We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

Only a CEO who had been through some awful, horrible, devastating circumstances would know to give that advice at that time.

"When my face was slashed, my dad held me on his lap in the car to the hospital, applying direct pressure with the swift calm of a veteran and an ex-fireman. I looked up and asked him, "Am I going to die?" "Don't speak," he said. So, yeah, he's not the kind of guy who wants to watch people eat bugs on <i>Survivor</i>. It's so clear to me how those two things are related."

Only the wounded physician heals... and then only to the extent he has healed himself.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals

Even people who have endured the worst suffering often want to talk about it.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again — but it finds a tougher surface.

Encounters with death and danger are only <i>adventures</i> to the survivors.

When a man was hit hard enough for evacuation, he was usually very happy, and we were happy for him — he had a ticket out to the hospital, or even a ticket home — alive. “When a man was killed — he looked ‘so peaceful.’ His suffering was over.

I’m not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there’s a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.

"Often people have asked me, "How do you recover from disaster?" I don't know any answer except the obvious one: You do it by meeting it and going on. From each you learn something, from each you acquire additional strength and confidence in yourself to meet the next one when it comes."

Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: 'None of it was your fault.

Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t told himself he’s the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first.