A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - 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."

"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."