“It was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.”

“He was down and out, the Catholics took him in, and before he knew it, he had faith. So it was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.”

“The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.”

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”

“In order to make most good, least harm choices, and create a humane and sustainable world, we are going to have to become adept at making connections. Single-issue thinking and taking sides when issues are presented to us in simplistic terms will have to give way to far more nuanced research, consideration, and decision making.”

“Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.”