To be criticized is to be known.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

He that hunts others, must run himself.

The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.