I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

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.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.

This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness.

The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.