Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

False leaders create followers by lying.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.