Mark Twain

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.

I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Who is wise? He who learns from all men.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.