Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life.

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

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

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

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.