By: Mark Twain

Keep away from 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.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.