It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened.

“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the m…”

“If you can, judge less and observe more.”

“there is no grief more devastating than the grief for what could have been.”

“Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracl…”