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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.