The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.