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I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.