It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

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

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

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

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

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.