If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

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.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

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

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.