“The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.”

“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.”

“What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.”

“Yes, God forgives and men forget,
And you're forgiven and forgotten.”

“Real devils are the people who don't want to see God forgive the devil on judgment day.”

“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”

“"To forgive oneself"—? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.”

“And what if I don't want forgiveness?”