Mark Twain

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“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.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

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

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

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

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”