The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.