The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

I not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of suffering

Everyone can find the field in which he is gifted, his favorite activity and devote his time to it, instead of working for a good income, but no satisfaction

a good friendship is beneficial to both, a bought friend is a free enemy that no one can afford.

I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

The Republican Party is not treating me right, and they're not treating the people that I represent right.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.