Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The right word might be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.