The trade of a critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

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

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.

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

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.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

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

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

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.