Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Sm... - Mark Twain

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."