Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 If God said, "I forgive you," to a man who hated his brother, and if (as is impossible) that voice of forgiveness should reach the man, what would it mean to him? How would the man interpret it? Would it not mean to him, "You may go on hating. I do not mind it. You have had great provocation, and are justified in your hate?" No doubt God takes what wrong there is, and what provocation there is, into the account; but the more provocation, the more excuse that can be urged for the hate, the more reason, if possible, that the hater should be delivered from the hell of his hate, that God's child should be made the loving child that He meant him to be. The man would think, not that God loved the sinner, but that He forgave the sin, which God never does. Every sin meets its due fate -- inexorable expulsion from the paradise of God's Humanity.

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

We will either find a way, or make one.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Failure is opportunity in disguise.

If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. - The Passing of Arthur.

And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.