Mark Twain

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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

After a few months’ acquaintance with European coffee, one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.