They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it becomes indescribable, indefinable.