Mark Twain

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead – and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

The things you own end up owning you.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.