Mark Twain

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

My philosophy is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.