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.
Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea, 1993.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.