To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.