The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Genius, when young, is divine.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Bad men are full of repentance.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.