Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.

Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.

Forgiveness is not between me and the one who has hurt me; it is between me and the Lord.

Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.

We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.

Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.

Huevos up. Swing up to the window, swing back to Al B. Hall, who says, "Bless you, " and would I get him a bottle of Satan's Red-Hot Revenge for the eggs?Sure thing, Pastor.

Do not seek power for revenge. Seek power in order to avoid situations that would make you want revenge.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.