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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on Ambition
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"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on Age and Aging
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"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."

Twain, Mark on Age and Aging
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on Friends and Friendship
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on Friends and Friendship
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