Mark Twain

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life … I’m not going to change anything.

Dream won’t work unless you do.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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

First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then, all of a sudden, you change the world.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise.

I was afraid to show you this 300 acres that I just purchased that I’m building my first community on – my first five properties on – because I felt like it would be shut down.

If you don’t get out there and try to solve your own problems, it’s never going to change.