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

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.

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

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.

An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.

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.

"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.