Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

Where there is love there is life.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

He who angers you conquers you.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Our God is a forgiving God.

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

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

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

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

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.

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

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.