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

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

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

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.

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.

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.