Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.

Criticism—any judgmental, censuring, faultfinding comment—is poison to the soul. It will never heal; it only destroys. Do not administer any dose of criticism to living people.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.