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I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.