"When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry." Mahatma Gandhi

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present." English Proverb

"Good, great, universal art may be incomprehensible to a small circle of spoiled people, but certainly not to any large number of plain men." Tolstoy

"You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult." Judge Hall

"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all." Mark Twain

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." Jean Sibelius

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." Brendan Francis Behan

"The demonic paradox of writing: when you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you." Andrew Holleran

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain

"Only a mediocre writer is always at his best." W. Somerset Maugham

"On the whole, audiences prefer that art be not a mirror held up to life, but a Disneyland of the soul, containing Romanceland, Spyland, Pornoland and all the other escapelands which are so much more agreeable than the complex truth." Geoffrey Wiseman

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." Bill Cosby

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." Salvador Dali

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance of a stranger." Franklin Jones

"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise." W. Somerset Maugham

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." John Lennon

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters." Paul Gauguin

"There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right." Kipling

"critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him." Ambrose Bierce

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard

"If all the grammarians in the world were placed end to end, it would be a good thing." Oscar Wilde

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms; the great devotions; and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt