The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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