The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone el... - Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

"If books are not good company, where shall I find it?"

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."