Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

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

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

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

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!