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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.