You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

What we do now echoes in eternity.