Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year or next year but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding mutual confidence sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

My desire is to be a forgiving non-judgmental person.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

To be social is to be forgiving.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

God will never direct us to be prideful arrogant and unforgiving immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country he would have escaped.

Well it's a little harder in New York. It's not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who can't cross the street they're not going to take it well. Southern California? They'll wait. It's cool man. In New York they're like 'Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work.'

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

As far as having peace within myself the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.