He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.