Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

A man’s house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential – there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

Sorry it had to end this way but uh, it is what it is …

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.