A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.