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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.