Mark Twain

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

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

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.

Old guys can still do fun things.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

I don’t know how to drive.

Wide awake and so confused.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.