There is a straight line between love and suffering.  If we love greatly, it is fairly certain we will soon suffer, because we have somehow given up control to another.  That is my simple definition of suffering: whenever we are not in control. 

Richard Rohr

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.  It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Jimmy Carter

“Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.”

— Edmund Burke