Mark Twain

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

I don’t write letters anymore.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.