Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love and mercy of God.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. -Unknown.

It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.