Mark Twain

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Nothing is real.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.