Mark Twain

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

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

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

What you possess, you lose.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.