Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

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

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

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

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

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

"Cautiousness is not cowardice; rather it is an expression of wisdom."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life."

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

"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

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

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

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you truly are."

"Eating an entire box of tacos does not constitute a cheat day."