Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.