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.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.