"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places." - Mark Twain

"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education." - Mark Twain

"Whatever a man's age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole." - Mark Twain

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. " - Mark Twain

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain

"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death." - Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain