“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”
“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
As quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (15 October 1897), as quoted in Origins of Psychoanalysis
1890s
No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”
in answer to her father, who accused her of making science her religion, as related by [Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Perennial, 2003, 0060985089, 61]
“When words leave off, music begins.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 343
“Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”
