arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.