Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need to things: ignorance and confidence.

I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.