Mark Twain

Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

We all die unhealed

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.