Mark Twain

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought – with these I deal.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.