Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration and all the fair examples of renown out of distress and misery are grown.

You know sometimes I feel well and vital in the world and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

You know I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time and I'm glad it's over.

At times of distress we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.

No lover if he be of good faith and sincere will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

God will never give you anything you can't handle so don't stress.