Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.

Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace.

And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet.

"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without