People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

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

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

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

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

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.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.