Mark Twain

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

*dont ever part with your illusions.  when they're gone, you still may exist, but you will have ceased to live..*

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head
Mark Twain

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
Mark Twain

First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
Mark Twain

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

Courage is resistance to fear, not absence of it