Mark Twain

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A man’s house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential – there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

We all die unhealed

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

All beings are by nature Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.