Mark Twain

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

When you know better, you do better.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Anger is short madness

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

First and foremost, it’s going to be treat others with respect. Be polite: Manners go a long way. Try to come from a good place. And aside from that, stay focused and do the right thing.