Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

Our naivety has left us convinced that the people with whom we sometimes talk about other people behind their backs will never talk about us behind our backs.

We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.

Once you realize that the vast majority of people see and know very little, you will rarely be affected when someone speaks ill or well of you.

Most people’s lives are to the average person not important like, or as important as, their opinions about him or her.

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.

We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.