American writer, humorist and essayist
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.