Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends.

if I am faithfully and regularly acknowledging my sin to God, it's much easier to apologize to my husband because I'm already in the habit of saying "I'm sorry" to God.

She wanted the best for her enemy, rather than hoping for the worst. This is remarkable. How could she do this? Because presumably, in the face of her emptiness and the sadness of being separated from her family, she had turned time and time again to her loving God and His promises.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.

If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

We always gave one-day cricket respect as players, definitely.

When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.