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.

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

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

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.

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

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.

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.