In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.

Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my fa...

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The...

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty ...

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empt...