Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.