It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

- Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

- Mark Twain

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

- Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

- 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