“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.”
“great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”
“To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.”
“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.”
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927”