No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

I think as queer people, we were very used to accommodating.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

When somebody you've wronged forgives you, you're spared the dull and self-diminishing throb of a guilty conscience. When you forgive somebody who has wronged you, you're spared the dismal corrosion of bitterness and wounded pride. For both parties, forgiveness means the freedom again to be at peace inside their own skins and to be glad in each other's presence.

I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant, but may my "right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

A man's love decreases with the revelation of defects; a woman's does not. A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults. There is something divine in that kind of love, because God loves us in spite of all defects, our failings, and our sins. A man may stand for the Justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

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