How can you regain confidence when you know that confidence is just a varnish painted atop human frailty?

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them close...

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

There will come a time,'' I said, ''when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. [...]

Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.