Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

—Norman Cousins

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

—Norman Cousins

Laughter is inner jogging.

—Norman Cousins

History is a vast early warning system.

—Norman Cousins

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

—Berton Averre

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

—P. G. Wodehouse

No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.

—Colleen Hoover in All Your Perfects

Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.

—Pope Benedict xvi

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude. 

—Martin Luther King Jr.