“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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” –Mark Twain
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” — Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain
“To lodge all power in one party and keep it there, is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals” — Mark Twain
“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” — Mark Twain
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” — Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain
“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
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.” — Mark Twain
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” — Mark Twain
“Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle” — Mark Twain
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain
