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.

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.

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.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.

Now I understand,” said the last man.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

It's great to get to work with your idols.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

Suicide is a real threat to health.