When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

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.

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.