Quotes About Reconciliation

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

To hate and to blame would be so easy. But in the end, those who collect stones as a reminder of the past wrongdoings find themselves carrying far greater weights than the very people who have done them wrong.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.

What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.

Whenever best friends get into a fight, I feel like it is always quick to resolve.

I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter - the boy I bullied would and should arise as a necessary ghost from my past.

Forgiveness is a gift, and central to faith.

Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.

Reason why we've lasted so long is we write music; we get very intense. We go away from each other, do our own thing, and then we get back together.

Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.

I saw some really amazing stuff with Axl. We worked really well together. We were good friends. And I hope to perhaps have that friendship back one day, although it's not something I wait around for.

My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.

Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.

I've never really had any beef with anybody yet, so I think that's a good thing.