"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Pain is no evil unless it conquers us." - George Eliot

"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain." - Thomas Jefferson

"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm." - Samuel Johnson

"You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live." - Alexander Pope

"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own." - Francis Thompson

"I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep." - Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augutin de (1732-1799)

"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other `sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is 'not' a sin--just stupid.)" - Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) from 'Time Enough For Love'

"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." - Nixon, Richard Milhous