“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
“The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.”
“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.”
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
“It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.”
“The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.”