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

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. read more

• Knowledge Nostalgia for What Lost More Bearable Had First Involves Knowledge Pleasure Second Ignorance Pain

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. read more

• Thought Man Cannot Understand Beauty Life Probably Understood

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. read more

• Thought What Think Determines Happens Us Want Change Our Lives Need Stretch Minds

To a great mind, nothing is little. read more

• Inspirational Motivational Great Mind Nothing Little

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. read more

• Thought open-mind Problem World Intelligent People Full Doubts While Stupid Ones Confidence

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear read more

• Thought Courage Resistance Fear Mastery Absence

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. read more

• Thought Better Keep Mouth Closed Let People Think Fool Open Remove Doubt

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. read more

• Thought Let Us Live Come Die Even Undertaker Sorry

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. read more

• Thought Total Abstinence Excellent Thing Cannot Carried Too Great Extent Passion for Even Carry Far Totally Abstain from Itself

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. read more

• Thought Human Race Really Effective Weapon Laughter