Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great 1.35K
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place 2.43K
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do 2.52K
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head. 1.38K
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. 775
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. 734
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately. 797
