When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

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.

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

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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