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

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

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!

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

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.