“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.

One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

I’ve been taught that it will be such an extraordinary story if it ends with forgiveness.

You’ve never gone too far that God can’t redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.