Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

He felt her heartbeat against his shoulder, through his jacket, light as raindrops.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.