Note discovered in the apartment of a man in his early thirties after he jumped to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1970s.

Maimonides said, "Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world."

None of us can know what hell or heaven lurks behind the public masks on display in our everyday world: we can only be charitable, just a bit more than we otherwise might, in a nod toward what we can only experience for ourselves, but never appreciate in another.

The single best book in the world for those who have never experienced a profound, life-stopping depression, is William Styron's brief (96 pages) account of his own descent into hell, "Darkness Visible."