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.

No apology is equal to the task set before it.

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.

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

"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 the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

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