Mark Twain

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.

Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I’m not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,

A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.