Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.

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

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.