My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race to grow and mature.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

Suffering is the positive element in this world indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Beyond politics the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions broken families and broken souls.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

People in Afghanistan want peace including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families they have relatives they have children they are suffering a tough time.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Patriotism in America as I understand it is a matter of suffering when the country fails to live up to its promises or actively betrays them.

Unfortunately after Sept. 11 there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Suffering is permanent obscure and dark And shares the nature of infinity.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.