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

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

- Mark Twain

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.

- Mark Twain

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes

- Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

- Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

- Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain