“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.”
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government, when it deserves it.”
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to reform.”
“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.”
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
“Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.”
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”
“Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.”
“It’s not what we don’t know that gets us into trouble; it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
¡Adiós! (Goodbye in Spanish)
