“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches.  If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise.” – Anne Lindbergh 

“All men are equal not in respect of their gifts but that everyone has a will capable of choice …  The indeterminancy of time means that events never happen once and for all.  The good may fall, the bad may repent, and suffering can be, not a simple retribution, but a triumph.” – W.H. Auden