If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

From caring comes courage.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

My friends are my estate.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

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

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.