The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.

What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense. You will be able to smile at how you overcome the tears of pain.

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.

Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.

The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.

The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.

The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.