It is extremely difficult not to fake or overdo something on which you have just been complimented.

Whether we regard someone’s opinion as a fact or as an opinion depends on whether they are criticizing or complimenting us.

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.

We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

Never deny others their right to criticize or to hate you, and yourself your right to ignore them.

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.

Others have the right to criticize you unfairly. And you have the right to ignore them.