Mark Twain
  • 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.

  • I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  • The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.