Who said “The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor…”?

“Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.”

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

“Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.”

“It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.”

“If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.”

“The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.”

“A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.”

“The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.”