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

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.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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.‘

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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.

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

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

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

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

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.

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

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

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

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

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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.

I never hold a grudge.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.