There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.