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.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, all foes to real understanding. Likewise tolerance and charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our corner of the earth.
"After the first 15 minutes of the preacher's sermon I was ready to give $10, after the first half hour I was ready to give $5 and after the first hour, I stole $2."