Mark Twain

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

The more I learn about people, the better I like my dog.

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.