“My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.”
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
“This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.”
“It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”