“Life has become insupportable, forgive me.”

“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”

“Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.”

“I love her because she has become something more to me. She become my life.”

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

“I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.”

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

“Candles forgive fire, rivers forgive the sea, age forgives time, life forgives death. But can I forgive your passing?”

“If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.”

“Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.”