We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

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.

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

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.

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

The only way to isolate specific back muscles - whether it is upper. or lower back - or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection.

Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.