Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.

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.

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

No apology is equal to the task set before it.

Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.

Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.