1.Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first...2.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...3.In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination...All quotes from Mark Twain........pretty much says it all.