Mark Twain

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; …they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; …those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last-the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them-and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, …a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

I am from the planet of elegance.

I think; therefore I am.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?”

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.