I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfec….

There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes ….

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion..

Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us ne….

We were all Romans once, I guess..

Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the ….

When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay….

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead..

God has made us humans in God's own image. So therefore the highest way to talk about God is by some kind of analogy with ourselves. So, naturally, i….

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; f….

Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. ….

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow,….

I am everyone I have ever loved..

When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power..

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritu….

...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself..

I'm pretty private as a person - people generally think they know more about me than they do, because I gregariously advertise what I want known. So ….

I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right down the h….

Do I Stank or was it already Stanky in Here?.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant crue….

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more..