Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.