Henry Ward Beecher:
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Hillary Rodham Clinton:
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
Jessamyn West:
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
John F. Kennedy:
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
Abraham Lincoln:
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Albert Camus:
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Alice Walker:
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Agatha Christie:
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Anton Chekov:
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Aristotle:
We make war that we may live in peace.