Mark Twain

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

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you."

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, eats into it."

"Each of us is a moon to someone; it all depends on our worth."

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

"No word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

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

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

"It is no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

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

"Noise proves nothing."

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

"To eat is human, to digest, divine."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind."

"We are all ignorant; just about different things."

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."

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

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

"Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of one's own soul."

"I have never wished to cater to the crowd."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

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

"To be good is noble, but to teach others to be good is nobler—and less trouble."

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."

"There's no mistake. There's no accident. Nothing's lost."

"Do something every day that scares you."