Mark Twain

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

The more natural, the better.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.