Mark Twain

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.