The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.

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

We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.

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.

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.

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

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