“Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.”
“I must also be criticised. I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the king cannot be criticised, it means that the king is not human.”
“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
“The only thing that's worse than people who say "I am what I am" is people who say "I yam what I yam" while doing a Popeye imitation.”
“I didn't think he was a very 'nice' person,' says Chichilnisky [about Jeff Bezos]. 'I liked him, but he was not warm. I'm not criticising him, not a bit. It was like he could be a Martian for all I knew. A well-meaning, nice Martian.”
“You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”