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

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.

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?

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!

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