“Humans kill one another – and in some cases themselves – for many reasons, but none is more human than the attempt to make sense of their lives. More than the loss of life, they fear loss of meaning.”

“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”

“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”

“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

“A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one;
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.”

“Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?”

“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”

“Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.”