Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

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

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

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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

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

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

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