The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present

A good judge conceives quickly, judges slowly

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger and 790 million of them live in the Third World

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite To forgive wrongs darker than death or night To defy power which seems omnipotent To love, and bear to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates

If thou art called to pass through tribulations if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea; if thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can't you stay with us O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb; and if thou shouldest be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep, if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man (Jesus Christ) hath descended below them all; art thou greater than he

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer