My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
As I grew up I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do and more in the light of what they suffer.
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race to grow and mature.
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives but for the most part I never really regret and I try to always remain positive. Yes I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character and they're prominent issues in life and I think people can relate to them.
Suffering is the positive element in this world indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Beyond politics the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions broken families and broken souls.
By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
People in Afghanistan want peace including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families they have relatives they have children they are suffering a tough time.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.