“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.”

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.

Love is like infinity: You can’t have more or less infinity, and you can’t compare two things to see if they’re “equally infinite.” Infinity just is, and that’s the way I think love is, too.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she’s easy then what does that say about me?

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don’t want it if it’s that easy.

It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.