Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

A man’s house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential – there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.