Mark Twain

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.

History is more or less bunk.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.