Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.