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.

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

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.

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.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

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

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.