Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.

When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship.

One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

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

We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.