I never said Kristen ruined my wedding. At the time, when a million other things had fallen apart that day, I felt like she was one of them, and I was owed an apology. Simple as that. I now see that...

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

The covetous man is always poor.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who nevertheless set aside a day of thanksgiving.

The tulip is among flowers what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb the other in its tail.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive neither party came prepared to be forgiven.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

We obviously both have our pasts, but that's not important right now. I don't have to know every bad thing you ever did in your life to know that you're a good guy now. People change, grow up, get...

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

When we have open ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.

And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.

Forgiveness can help you to be sane.

Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you - rotting you out.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then...

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.

Forgiveness opens your life for an abundance of positive things.

They tell us the only way to move on is to forget. Forgive, they say. Realize that you deserve better. That maybe they deserve better. You can't fight fire with fire. Extinguish it once and for all....

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness. It is power.

When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.

Learning to forgive is the greatest way to find inner peace.

We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace.

Why eye for an eye, when we can have smile for a smile ?

Do not judge. But pray for grace for all people.

We never look at people with the eye of God; instead, we look at them from their past, what they did wrong.