Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

October: This is one of the particularly dangerous months to invest in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

A home without a cat-and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat-may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Softness has such a power to it. When you choose to soften into something, it relaxes, opens, tension releases. Stuck energy flows like blood coursing through veins, bringing much needed oxygen. Life force and warmth enters, connection is rekindled. Find the trust you need to allow softness in; it really is healing.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.