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.

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

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.

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

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.

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

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.