The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

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.

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

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

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!

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

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

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.