A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
I can last two months on a good compliment.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
People are different. And it is best that way.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
You may also enjoy these funny words of encouragement from Mark Twain:
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.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
