I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness. — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total. — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
The kids started teasing me to get me to swear in Italian. Two or three months, I started retaliating. I found out I could… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish. — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything. — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
