1468  The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

694  Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

658  Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

1070  “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”

1011  “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”