The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.