"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."
"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself."
"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."
"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."
"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."
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
"Forgotten is forgiven."
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."
"God will forgive me. It's his job."
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."
"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."
"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget."
"I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his."
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."
"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."