Mark Twain

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Anxiety • Debt • Worry

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

Ambition • Encouragement • Motivational

Never regret anything that made you smile.

Happiness • Life • Positive

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.

Anxiety • Health • Stress

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Ignorance • Knowledge • Mistakes

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Endurance • Friendship • Loyalty

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.

Adventure • Exploration • Motivational

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

Discovery • Life • Purpose

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Communication • Honesty • Integrity

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Books • Experience • Knowledge

Principles have no real force except when one is well - fed.

Force • Satisfaction • Wellness

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Diet • Discipline • Health

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Improvement • Motivational • Overcoming

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Happiness • Kindness • Motivational

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Adversity • Life • Overcoming

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Books • Fantasy • Imagination

When in doubt tell the truth.

Honesty • Integrity • Trust

We have the best government that money can buy.

Corruption • Influence • Money

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Freedom • God • Speech

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Forgiveness • Fragrance