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.

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

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

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.

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.

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