Mark Twain

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

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.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

When one has tasted it he knows what the angels eat.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.