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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.