Don't dream your life, but live your dream

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.