I've become a master of the apology.

What we expect from our drivers, as team mates, is that they show respect for each other and allow one another enough room on the race track.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Samir respects me for what I am. I think we get along because we're similar in a way. He's quiet and likes his own space like I do.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

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All our families are broken and marred by the effects of the Fall.

I may not agree with you or you with me. Yet I can remain in relationship with you. I don't have to detach from you, reject you, avoid you, or criticize you to validate myself. I can be myself apart from you.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.