When you forgive someone, you agree to bury the hatchet, handle and all. When you bury the hatchet with the handle sticking up, that says that you are ready to yank the hatchet out of the ground and use it whenever the opportunity arises again. If you bury the hatchet like that, it's as if you've never forgiven them to begin with.

Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.

Before you worry about telling the truth to anyone, make sure that you are telling the truth to yourself.

Keep your eyes open for deer wandering into your headlights, otherwise, you will become the deer in the headlights.

All people smile in the same language.

Just because you do something stupid, it doesn't mean you're stupid.