Mark Twain

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

We are all alike, on the inside.

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

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.