To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
Walter KaufmannRabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
Walter KaufmannFor atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.
Walter Kaufmann