Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

A man’s character is his fate.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

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.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I am just one human being.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Before all else, be armed.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

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

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.