Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be

Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain