"In America, we teach people how to acquire things, but we don't teach how to lose them."

The reality, Johnson said, is that life amounts to an unending series of losses. "From the moment that we come out of our mother's womb, there's a loss. There's a loss of connection. ... And then all along, we lose as we grow up. We lose friends, we change grades, we lose toys, we lose pets. ... As you get into later life, we lose hair, we lose strength. ... So life can be viewed as a series of losses, but yet America is much more concerned about what we acquire than it is about what we lose.  One of the things we say a lot is, 'Time will heal all wounds.' And time really does not heal anything," --Bishop F. Josephus Johnson II