Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.