God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
William NicholsonThere is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
William NicholsonA well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
William Nicholson