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

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

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

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

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.

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.