Mark Twain

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.

It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

It’s a blip, not a catastrophe.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Seek not outside yourself for success lies within.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The fact of the matter is, you don’t give up what’s natural. Anything I’ve fantasized about, I’ve done.