Mark Twain

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

The person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn’t, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn’t likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

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

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.

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

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

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

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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

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