I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

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

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

God will forgive me that's his business.

We all like to forgive and love best not those who offend us least nor who have done most for us but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it it looks at you and does not forgive.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Holding on to anger resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

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

Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

Our country will I believe sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

If those committed to the quest fail they will be forgiven. When lost they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone whether successful or not provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.