Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin' cross for the world to see. You do it because it's the right thing to do.

Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.