Mark Twain

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.

To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Love truth, but pardon error.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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?

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.