We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

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.

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.

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.

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

Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life.

Apology may start as a feeling, a desire to make matters right, but it requires a commitment to move that desire into practice, to actually take on the great courageous task of showing compassion to others.