Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

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

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

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.