When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you…

Many times, you are the single most significant and glorious thing that has ever happened in the lives of some people; they sit around and talk about you over and over again throughout the years...

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

Don’t destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won’t have any other option than...

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

The vampire community has enough problems. We don’t need to add petty backbiting to it.