Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

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.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

You must throw away your bad habits to get good.