Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together.

Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.

An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender.

An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"

Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.

You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.