Mark Twain

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

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Our best history is still poetry.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

I am a sky gazer. The sky, it pulls at me. Its amazing eternal expanse of breathtaking beauty calls me back to my senses, stretches my awareness, soothes my eyes, opens my heart, stills me. I feel a soft soul longing to be up there, in the vastness, amongst the clouds that are alive and billow and skud and glow; metamorphosing from perfection into perfection. A constantly changing canvas brushed by magic.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms… We have to model what we want.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

What drives me to be who I am, to do all that I do, is not what words will be engraved for my epitaph. What drives me to be who I am, to do what I do, is not vanity, is not for adulation in the eyes of others. What drives me is my own desire to be better; to be happy. When I am dead and buried, the words above will not bring me back to life, I choose to live out my epitaph, and not just for it to be a collection of words someone has chosen to define me.