The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

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

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.