Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that posses...
You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.