Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.