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

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

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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

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

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

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