Author of quotes: Dale Carnegie. Page 7

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - most of them do, but the recognition of our own mistakes puts a man above the crowd and birthday fills him with a sense of generosity and celebration.
(Any fool can defend his mistakes - most fools do.)

Criticism is useless because it makes a person defensive and usually seeks to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous because it strikes at his pride, offends a sense of self-importance, and arouses resentment. Human nature to blame anyone but themselves. We all are. So when tomorrow we want someone to criticize, then let's think about that criticism like postal pigeons that always come home.

I have enough problems of their own - I don't have time to worry about the fact that God is not all equally rewarded mind.